Criminal Justice SUBMITTED BY :

JASMEET KAUR 09609154 

Information Systems KUBER SETHI 09609101
SOMESH RAHUL 06553883
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 Criminal justice information systems

public records investigative systems

(non-public information on cases under
(e.g., stolen property reports, arrest investigation, including namesofsuspects,
warrants, criminal history records, etc) informants, victims)

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 Some systems operate on

Name ●

●
DOB
Race
search ●
Other non-unique identifiers

Record ●
Criminal history
s ●
Fingerprints
The states and the Federal government also maintain separate
DNA identification databases.
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 Some informational issues
Is the information accurate?

How long is it kept for?

Does the record subject have a right to review and correct?

What protections are in place against misuse?

Who has access?

For what purposes can the information be used?

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 Now, driven in part by the Internet, a key
movement is towards “integration” or linking
of criminal justice information systems in the
hope of better efficiencies. The purpose of this
presentation is to give an overview of the
major criminal justice information systems, as
background to a discussion of issues of access,
linkage and control.

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 The Criminal Justice Information
Systems
The FBI’s National
The National Law Enforcement Crime Information
Telecommunications Systems
(NLETS) Center (NCIC)
Network

The FBI’s Criminal Other Systems and

Justice Information
Services Wide Area
Telecommunication
Network (CJIS WAN) s Networks
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 1) The National Law Enforcement Telecommunications
Systems (NLETS)

• NLETS is a nationwide network that links all states and many

federal agencies together for the exchange of a criminal
justice information.
• In each state, an interface agency is responsible for
maintaining an in-state law enforcement telecommunication
systems that delivers messages throughout the state.
• Through those connections, any criminal justice agency on a
state law enforcement 102 telecommunications systems in
one state can communicate with any criminal justice agency
on a law enforcement telecommunications system in any
other state.

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 National Crime Information Center
(NCIC) Network

• NCIC is a national index of theft reports,

warrants and other criminal justice
information submitted by law
enforcement agencies across the country.

• It provides real-time notification of

information regarding persons and
property to police.

• At present, generate more than

2,000,000 transactions per day.

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 POWER OF INFORMATION

1 Stolen Vehicles and Vehicles Used in Felonies.

2 Stolen License Plates (695,083) , Stolen boats (31,481)

3 Stolen articles ,Stolen securities ,Stolen Guns, Recovered Guns.

4
Wanted Person Reports (Warrants) ,Foreign Fugitive Reports
Missing Persons Reports.
5 Persons of Possible Danger to Secret Services , Sex Offenders

6 Inquiry access to the FBI’s Interstate Identification Index (III).

7 Decentralized systems , reduction in the FBI workload in maintaining

the records.
 Criminal Justice Information Services
Wide Area Network (CJIS WAN)

1 Electronic submission of arrest

fingerprints
2
Integrated Automated Fingerprint
Identification Systems (IAFIS )

3
Fingerprints of noncriminal justice
applicants

4
Person’s national identification
5
FBI Laboratory services,
6 Consolidated into a single network
 CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION
SYSTEM

• OTHER SYSTEMS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NETWORK
• FBI INFORMATION SYSTEM

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 OTHER SYSTEMS AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK

 NATIONAL
 FEDERAL
 STATE
 MULTI-STATE

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 NATIONAL

• These are the Information systems that support local,

state, tribal and federal agencies.
• Examples of these systems are as follows:
– CODIS
– NIBIN
– NDPIX
– UCR/NIBRS
– NICS
– LEO

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 FEDERAL
• These systems support the justice activities of one or
more federal agency at the federal level only.
• Examples of these systems are as follows:
– TECS
– DRUGX
– JABS
– NIPC’s

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 STATE

• These are the systems at the state, regional, and/or

local level
• Examples of these systems are as follows:
– Criminal History Records Systems
– State and Local Stolen Property and Wanted Person
Systems
– State Correction Information Systems
– State and Local Court Systems
– Driver and Vehicle Registration Systems

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 MULTI-STATE

• These systems share information between multiple

states
• Examples of these systems are as follows:
– Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
– WIN-Western Identification Network, an AFIS
consortium of western states
– GREAT – Gang Reporting, Evaluation and Tracking
system, investigative database of suspectedgang
members, maintained by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department, accessible to agencies nationwide
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 FBI INFORMATION SYSTEM
• The FBI occupies a unique position, administering several of the
major nationwide criminal justice databases, while at the same
time maintaining large in-house databases of investigative
information.
• The FBI’s first budget initiative for FY 2000 was information
collection and analysis.
• Some of the IT tools developed by FBI are
– link analysis – the identification of relationships across
organizations, people, places, and events, etc.
– telephone toll analysis – the analysis of information
collected through pen registers;
– geographic analysis – a mapping of subjects activities
movements;
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• The FBI is also a consumer
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